Tuberculous meningitis: Do modern diagnostic tools offer better prognosis prediction?

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-14

  Alarcón, Fernando ^a   Moreira, Juan ^b,c   Rivera, José ^a   Salinas, Robert ^a   Dueñas, Gonzalo ^d   Van den Ende, Jef ^c  

^a HOSPITAL EUGENIO ESPEJO   (Ecuador)

^b MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Ecuador)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Predictors; Prognosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRITISH MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STAGING; CISTERNAL EFFACEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; IRRITABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; QUITO SCORE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 84875078187     PISSN: 00195707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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